Description: A map of the earth from 1894 showing the known world before the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the West Indies (1492) and Vasco de Gama to Calicut, India (1498). The known portions of the globe are in white, the unknown portions are shaded.
Place Names: Regional Miscellaneous, Africa, Europ
ISO Topic Categories: borders, kWorldAtlantic, kWorldEurasia, kWorldEuroAfrica
Keywords: The World as Known Before Columbus, borders, country borders, borders, kWorldAtlantic, kWorldEurasia, kWorldEuroAfrica, Unknown, 1492–1498
Source: William Swinton, First Lessons in Our Country's History (New York, New York: American Book Company, 1894) 14
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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